Conference tournaments have no respect for your bracket predictions (and other revelations)

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Ohio, are you kidding me? - Drag yourself through the regular season, losing to everyone and their mom, and then win the MAC tournament? Talk about taking the hard route.

Borrrrring - American returns the Patriot League to its boring pre-2009 status, winning another conference tournament. Zzz.

Answer your own front door. Butler's going to the dance - I don't know what happened to UWM, regular season champs, but they folded up the tents and went home against Valpo, as Butler went on to claim the tourney title by beating that same Valpo outfit.

Oh, USD. So close. - Toreros miss out on perfect conference season as they get snake-bit by Pepperdine, who, cripes, might make the tournament now.

Cal is soo over Stanford - The Murrey Monster had 24 kills and hit .356 to lead the Bears over Klineman & Co. Joining in on the Monster Mash were Gehan (.355), Johnson (.458), and Hawari (.500).

Penn State loves Minnesota right now, might hate them soon. - The 5-game upset of the Illini leaves Penn State alone in first place. But the Nittany Lions have to play at Minnesota next weekend after gorging on turkey. Oh and they're at Iowa, too.

Life detected on cold, desolate planet BYU. - Four in a row, including wins TCU and Los Lobos.

Big East final made up of teams not actually in the East - Louisville, the Omsk of northern Kentucky, sweeps Cincy, the... Dayton of southwestern Ohio.

Keylor Chan would like to voice his displeasure over that call - Unfortunately, he voiced a little too, uh, enthusiastically, and got a red card on match point against Ohio State. Buckeyes, a Thank You card is standard protocol in this situation.

It's a brand new day in Lubbock - Boy, you fire one coach, and the next thing you know you're beating Colorado in 5 games. Progress!

[insert comical double-take] - Northridge beats Long Beach. Coley Kyman's legacy lives on.